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"The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world."
"The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends."
"President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?""
"If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends."
"Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom."
"My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them."
"Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly."
"No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend."
"Equals make the best friends."
"Nothing prepared me for your smile"
"Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends."
"What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?"
"It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends."
"Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe."
"I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright."
"Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals."
"Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!"
"Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages."
"But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost."
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
